Simon Zambrovski

I had a chance to speak about Eclipse Common Navigator Framework on Eclipse DemoCamp Hamburg – Galileo Edition. The event was a full success. Five speakers and fourty visitors were attending. After the formal part, there was an opportunity to relax at the bar of East Hotel Hamburg, thanks to Peter and Martin.

My talk was focussed on the basics of CNF. After some slides on Why, What and How, I moved on to a live coding demo and coded a small CNF view inside of an trivial RCP. Everithng worked fine, until the launch – I misspelled one id in the plugin.xml, and had to resign and showed the prepaired result instead of the hacked one. If you want to read more, check out the TechJava report.

During the ongoing work on development of a language for enterprise modeling it seems reasonable to develop a prototype modeling tool. Especially in case of enterprise models, which tend to become huge very quickly, it is important to have a possibility to define views on the models, and store them persistently. Eclipse ecosystem offers a bunch of frameworks for creation of DSLs, but these only support certain types of mapping between model elements and notations.

Helge concentrated during the work on his Master Thesis on development of that prototype tooling.

Our talk concentrated on building a repository for GMF-based diagram editor models. Due to the limitation in resources, the goal was to minimize the adoptions and changes of GMF/EMF generators and create a prototype model repository.

Thanks to Marco Kuznik from Loroma for providing the video of the talk. It is pretty dark, but you can hear our voices and it is in German.